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<span class=large>NAHUM</span>
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CHAPTER 3
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The miserable downfall of Nineveh is foretold.
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Woe</span> to the bloody city!  it <i>is</i> all full of lies <i>and</i> robbery; the prey departeth not;
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The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots.
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The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and <i>there is</i> a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases; and <i>there is</i> none end of <i>their</i> corpses; they stumble upon their corpses:
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Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.
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Behold, I <i>am</i> against thee, saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> of hosts; and I will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame.
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And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock.
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And it shall come to pass, <i>that</i> all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan her?  whence shall I seek comforters for thee?
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Art thou better than <sup>a</sup><a href="nahum/3/8a" mark="a" type="Q" title="HEB No-amon; i.e. Thebes; Jer. 46: 25; Ezek. 30: 14 (14-16).">populous</a> No, that was situate among the rivers, <i>that had</i> the waters round about it, whose rampart <i>was</i> the sea, <i>and</i> her <sup>b</sup><a href="nahum/3/8b" mark="b" type="D" title="IE defense.">wall</a> <i>was</i> from the sea?
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Ethiopia and Egypt <i>were</i> her strength, and <i>it was</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="nahum/3/9a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB without limit.">infinite</a>; <sup>b</sup><a href="nahum/3/9b" mark="b" type="A" title="Gen. 10: 6.">Put</a> and <sup>c</sup><a href="nahum/3/9c" mark="c" type="E" title="IE the Libyans; 2 Chr. 12: 3 (2-3).">Lubim</a> were thy helpers.
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Yet <i>was</i> she carried away, she went into captivity: her young <sup>a</sup><a href="nahum/3/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 13: 16.">children</a> also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.
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Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy.
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All thy strong holds <i>shall be like</i> fig trees with the firstripe figs: if they be shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater.
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Behold, thy people in the midst of thee <i>are</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="nahum/3/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 51: 30.">women</a>: the gates of thy land shall be set wide open unto thine enemies: the fire shall devour thy bars.
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Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln.
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There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locusts.
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Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and flieth away.
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Thy crowned <i>are</i> as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, <i>but</i> when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they <i>are.</i>
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Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall dwell <i>in the dust:</i> thy people is scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth <i>them.</i>
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<i>There is</i> no healing of thy bruise; thy wound is grievous: all that hear the <sup>a</sup><a href="nahum/3/19a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB report.">bruit</a> of thee shall clap the hands over thee: for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?
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